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Eric Katz

Eric Katz joined Government Executive in the summer of 2012 after graduating from The George Washington University, where he studied journalism and political science. He has written for his college newspaper and an online political news website and worked in a public affairs office for the Navy’s Military Sealift Command. Most recently, he worked for Financial Times, where he reported on national politics.

November 12, 2015
Despite pressure from immigration advocacy groups and even the White House for equipping law enforcement personnel with body cameras, Customs and Border Protection continues to have reservations about the technology. More than a year after CBP Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske ordered a review of the feasibility of requiring agency law...

November 12, 2015
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., scored a major endorsement Thursday, with one of the U.S. Postal Service unions throwing its support behind the Democratic presidential candidate. The American Postal Workers Union’s National Executive Board voted on the endorsement, rallying behind Sanders’ call for a “political revolution,” according to the group’s President...

November 11, 2015
One Republican presidential candidate wants to eliminate federal agencies so badly he has proposed doing away with one department twice. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, in the Republican presidential candidates' debate Tuesday said he would eradicate five major agencies if elected president, but inadvertently mentioned the Commerce Department twice. In a...

November 11, 2015
Just about every federal stakeholder has at some point in the past few years discussed the need to improve federal employee engagement. But what did they mean when they said that? What does an engaged federal employees look like? What can federal leaders do, specifically, to make their workers more...

November 10, 2015
The Office of Personnel Management has sent out 7.7 million notifications to victims of data breaches to let them know their personal information was compromised, according to the agency. This is slightly more than one-third of the total number of notifications the agency plans to issue. The pace for sending...

November 9, 2015
Federal employees remain significantly underpaid compared to their private sector counterparts, according to a review by a group advising the president on federal wages, with feds’ pay lagging 35 percent behind non-federal workers performing similar jobs. The Federal Salary Council, made up of federal employee union representatives and pay experts,...

November 9, 2015
A recent survey of federal workers showed Ben Carson was the most liked presidential candidate of either party among Defense Department employees, but that could change after recent media attention highlighted his apparent exaggeration of receiving an “offer” to attend the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. A Politico story...

November 6, 2015
A recent survey of federal workers showed Ben Carson was the most liked presidential candidate of either party among Defense Department employees, but that could change after recent media attention highlighted his apparent exaggeration of receiving an “offer” to attend the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. A Politico story...

November 6, 2015
The U.S. Postal Service has used a variety of tools to shrink its workforce by nearly 30 percent in the last 20 years, as the struggling mailing agency has attempted to modernize and right size in a new era of communication. A recently released report from the Congressional Research Service...

November 5, 2015
The backlog of federal retirement claims fell in October to its lowest point this year, according to statistics released by the Office of Personnel Management on Thursday. Unprocessed retirement claims stood at 12,642 at the end of last month, down more than 2,000 from September. It marked the first time...

Database-level encryption had its origins in the 1990s and early 2000s in response to very basic risks which largely revolved around the theft of servers, backup tapes and other physical-layer assets. As noted in Verizon’s 2014, Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)1, threats today are far more advanced and dangerous.

In order to better understand the current state of external and internal-facing agency workplace applications, Government Business Council (GBC) and Riverbed undertook an in-depth research study of federal employees. Overall, survey findings indicate that federal IT applications still face a gamut of challenges with regard to quality, reliability, and performance management.

PIV- I And Multifactor Authentication: The Best Defense for Federal Government Contractors

This white paper explores NIST SP 800-171 and why compliance is critical to federal government contractors, especially those that work with the Department of Defense, as well as how leveraging PIV-I credentialing with multifactor authentication can be used as a defense against cyberattacks

This research study aims to understand how state and local leaders regard their agency’s innovation efforts and what they are doing to overcome the challenges they face in successfully implementing these efforts.

The U.S. healthcare industry is rapidly moving away from traditional fee-for-service models and towards value-based purchasing that reimburses physicians for quality of care in place of frequency of care.